> Russia’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and per capita it’s citizens are poorer than Poles. > Russia is not a world power and hasn’t been for a while. IIR

> Russia’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and per capita it’s citizens are poorer than Poles. > Russia is not a world power and hasn’t been for a while. IIRC, they know that. That's why one of their main foreign policy objectives is to sow division and discord. Russia is weak compared to NATO as a whole, but it's strong compared to most individual NATO countries.